LittleDavid

TonyV said on the previous page that they're fluent English speakers.

I like these ideas.

All I recall is that Exteel died an abrupt, quiet death back in 2010. A lot like what they've tried to do with City of Heroes. I know that, like Auto Assault, Exteel did have a loyal core player base that still maintains a forum. I don't know whether or not they tried negotiating with NCSoft to sell the IP or let them host it out of their own pockets or what not.

Massively has an article on the shutdown notice.

I can't help but wonder if by "financially viable," they didn't mean "operating at a loss" but rather "the game's still making a profit, but we're going to shut it down anyway because we can use the money to make another shiny new MMO."

I hope one of them tells me John has a long mustache.

Do we have data on that, though? The amount of people continuing to play, I mean. The IR chart I saw stopped recording active accounts years before that point.

I mean, the servers still seemed pretty populated to me. My hometown is Guardian, and it still had a lot of people running around this year.

Yeah, I mean, last year there was Tiger & Bunny, an anime series about superheroes.

If you think about it, NCSoft could have taken advantage of that anime coming out to market City of Heroes in Japan. Characters in the anime series actually had corporate sponorships, like Sky High and his sponsorship with UStream.

Just imagine if one of those characters had a Paragon Studios sponsorship logo on their uniform, or NCSoft's.

... Darn it, now I'm picturing this as Statesman's demise.

Don't worry, my confidence had long since been shattered when they did this to Tabula Rasa. City of Heroes was the only NCSoft title I'd touch, because I thought its age and the size of its player base kept NCSoft from killing it off.

I think from now on I'll be taking my MMO money to games run by independent studios, if possible. If NCSoft really does subscribe to Electronic Arts' philosophy of publishing games, then I don't want anything to do with their titles, regardless of how awesome or fun they are. They'll all get put on the chopping block the moment they stop being profitable "enough."

Which reminds me! If I can find the time before the game ends I want to have my Tanker fight Hamidon ...


Oh, confessions, right, right ...

Yeah, that guy's mine.

... That counts as a confession, right?

Tell him to use the logo to make shirts and mugs on Cafepress! Or Zazzle! Or some place like that!

You can make red custom t-shirts on Zazzle!

Bingo.

This is a point that Jason Scott made when AOL shut down AOL Hometown and Yahoo shut down Geocities.

(Yeah, I keep bringing him up, but honestly I think the situation is comparable and applicable.)

You could say that our cause ...

*puts on visor-helmet*

... has seen the light of Day.

...

I have never thought about it that way before.

I can!

If a picture's worth a thousand words, this is the perfect description of Electric Knight's post:

So what? They also cover topics in gaming that don't involve games with a population greater than some U.S. states. Look here, at their TECH page: they have an entire category devoted to "gaming and gadgets." CNN has other resources devoted to covering African warlords; they can afford to talk about the Civilization II player who created a hellish nightmare world by playing the same game for ten years or Diablo III being a broken game along with the uprisings in Syria and bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan. By that metric, an organized effort by an MMO community to make the publishing company consider doing something other than it shutting it down and sitting on the IP is surely just as newsworthy.

Go contact CNN, tell them they need to "grow up" and stop wasting whatever resources you think they're wasting on the "whining and screaming and crying" of "crack addicts desperate for a fix." Your belittling the City of Heroes community for trying to use iReport, to the best of my knowledge, as it was intended by CNN is not going to gain any track with anyone here.

Haha! I still love the Quake one.

Black Mesa Source is a fan-created project as a response to Valve releasing Half-Life 1 for the Source engine. People were disappointed that the game didn't receive a comprehensive graphics update to match that of Half-Life 2, so a team of indie developers began working on a Source game that would do the job.

They are really going the whole nine yards, too. Bringing voice actors in to help re-voice a lot of old dialogue. The trailers they've put out over the years are amazing. Gabe Newell himself has said he really wants to play it.

On that note, I also recommend Renegade-X: Beyond Black Dawn. That one was released earlier this year, a fan-created update of Command and Conquer: Renegade using the Unreal Development Kit that Epic Games released a few years ago. Beyond Black Dawn is a short single-player campaign that follows on from Renegade's storyline, but the real meat is the online play.

I really need to fix my video card ...